The Sun. — London, England, 1864-12-29 00:00:00

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA, (From the Times' Correspondent.) NEW YORK, DEC. 17. The public anxiety for news of General Sherman has been relieved by the announcement, on Confe derate, and, therefore, unimpeachable authority, that he has reached the seacoast and taken by assault Fort M'Allister, commanding the entrance to Ossibaw Sound, and forming one of the main de fences of Savannah. The announcement is simul• taneously made that he has captured Savannah itself and 11,000 prisoners, after a fight which lasted eight hours. This news, though generally credited by the Federal press, is not official, and rests entirely upon statements made by steamboat passengers from Charleston Bar, who allege that it was received by flag of truce just prior to their departure. Mr Lincoln states, as a fact within his own knowledge that General Sherman has reached the Atlantic with 40,000 men, black and white, more than he started with; and, as the Confede• rates admit, and the Federals assert, that he has suffered but little loss, and met with but little real impediment in his hazardous march, it may be as sumed as certain, if he have not already taken Sa. vannab, that he has commenced the siege. Impor tant, if not decisive, news may therefore be hourly expected from that quarter. In Tennessee both the news and the rumours are equally unavoidable to the Confederate cause. General Hood, besieging Nashville with a force not equal to that opposed to him, has been attacked and defeated with severe loss, and forced back, according to the testimony of General Thomas, in a despatch to Mr Stanton, no less than eight miles. At Petersburg and Rich. mond all is quiet, General Grant having attempted no further movements since the repulse of General Warren on the Weldon Railway. The expedition of Admiral Porter, the same that was destined for Wilmington more than six weeks ago, and that was ordered to " go in and win" at any cost before the day of the Presidential election, and that appears to have been detained in cense■ quence of the sudden determination of Gen. Sher man to abandon Atlanta and march through Georgia to the sea, received final instructions on Tuesday last, and in the forenoon of that day the Admiral with his whole fleet sailed under sealed orders to the southward. Whether the point at which he aims is Charleston, Savannah, or Wilmington is not known to the public; but the popular theory fixes upon Charleston as the most likely place, and pre supposes, moreover, that the attack upon that pee cant city—" the cradle of the rebellion"—is to be simultaneous with Sherman's assault upon Sayan. nah. Expectation is intensely excited, though few persons who have studied the history of the war, and understand either the resources or the temper or the South, are of opinion that the capture of either or both of those cities will conduce in any percep tible degree to the conquest of the Confederacy. Bat the Americans are not entirely engrossed with the war. The sensation created by the Phos phorus Plot for burning down New York having wholly subsided—a new sensation has been disco vered of a much more piquant nature. The sense. tion of a grievance against Great Britain is new, yet old—and ever fresh and agreeable. The newspaper organs of Mr Seward have found an opportunity to threaten. their favourite foe, and to talk loudly of annexing Canada and the West India Islands, and if Great Britain be not particularly humble and discreet, of detaching Ireland from the British Crown by the aid of the Fenian brotherhood and of at least a quarter of a million of sympathising Yankees. The discharge of the soi-disant Confede rate soldiers who, under Lieut. Bennett Young, robbed the banks, stale the horses, and murdered the unoffending cit . zens of the little town of St. Albans, in Vermont, is the occasion of a hubbub which for the time being has almost rendered in. audible the din of war at Savannah and Nashville, and directed the thoughts of an impulsive public to the always exciting and rarely unpleasant possibi lity of a war with England. Though Me' Justice Coursal, of Montreal, discharged the prisoners on the technical ground that in a case of extradition the warrant for the arrest of the criminals ought to boar the signature of the Governor. General of Ca nada, which in this instance had not been affixed, it suits the purpose of the tk.. nions can be judged by those of the journals and of the officials who arc generally supposed to write and speak under its inspiration, to treat the dismissal as a denial of justice. Judge Coursal, who is a French Canadian, and not an Englishman, as most of the New York papers suppose, is attacked with every variety of unseemly epithet. No one seems to cone eider it possible that his law can be correct, or that his judgment can be honest, and the Tribune goes so far as to assert as beyond doubt that he set the raiders at liberty " because they were American rebels, and that political sympathy with them moved him to resort to a course which can be sustained neither by law nor reason." And this impudent charge is made against :a judge merely because he would not stretch or misinterpret the law he is called upon to administer in deference to the inflamed pas sions of the Northern Federalists, and because he has thrown the responsibility of further action upon what he believes to be an imperial question upon an imperial officer, who may, moreover, at the very moment that the discharge of the self-styled Confe rate soldiers was made known to him, have issued a warrant for their recapture. Unless the course of jus tice be illegally expedited in one sense, or perverted in another, to suit the exigencies of the American temper, never very amiable towards the land whose language they speak, and whose laws, but not whose manners or principles, they have inherited, war is forthwith to be declared, and Canada formally, and in spite of the Canadians, annexed to the unhappy family of the Union. Gen. Dix, in his capacity of Military Governor of New York and New England, no sooner learnt through the agency of the telegraph that the raiders had been let loose, than- he rushed late print with a "general order." He would not allow the sun to go down upon his wrath, nor wait to be officially informed of the circumstances, but, taking the facts as certain, and the discharge of the prisoners to be an act of hostility to his Government, he directed his military subordinates on the border, in ease of any further depredations on American soil committed by marauders or persons acting on Con federate authority, to shoot the perpetrators on the spot if possible, to follow them into Canada in case of need, and under, no circumstances to deliver up their prisoners, but send them to headquarters for trial by courtemartial. The animus of the order is apparent, and cannot fail to be offensive to the Canadian people, who object quite as strongly as General Dix to the invasion of the Federal States either by " robbers" or by Confederate soldiers, who make Canada the basis of their operations. Lord Monck, the Canadian Governor, and the Canadian people of all classes and nationalities, have alike shown so earnest a desire to do justice to the Americans, and to act not only as became good neighbours but good friends, and to avoid all pos. sible occasion either of dispute or misunderstand ing, that an American official of the high rank of Major-General Dix might well have afforded to wait the movements of the Canadian Ministry in the now case supervening on the judgment of the auterior Court before issuing a . proclamation so likely to provoke ill.feeling, if not hostility. But it always is or seems to b e n ecessar y i n A mer i ca f or politicians, whether in or out of office, to be em. ployed in creating political capital, and no capital of the kind is to be made so easily as by digging in the deep and apparently inexhaustible mine of hos. tility to Great Britain. It is admitted that the order of General D.x, if acted upon by indiscreet or over-zealous agents on the border, may embroil the two Governments. ,6 So it may,' ' Says the New York Times of this morning ; " but if war with England must come, let it come. Not ours be the guilt. It will belong only to English malignity and lawless ness. We were never in:a better condition for war with England than we are now." The Ne w Y ork 7 lines is edited by no obscure rowdy or unprin cipled adventurer, but by a scholar and a proles. sional politician, a member of Congress, and candi date either for the Speakership of the house of Representatives or for the Embassy to Paris, which ever may be the most easily attainable. Yet, unre strained by his position, he indulges in rodomon. trade like this through a whole column ; speaks of scattering the "red equad" of British soldiers in Canada like yellow leaves before the whirlwind; asserts that the British navy is a "pasteboard sham" which does not contain a single vessel that one prime American ironclad could not send to the bottom in 15 minutes; affirms that nothing in Canada could offer serious resistance to the Federal arms; that the British West India Islands might be made valuable appendages to the great Republic ; that Ireland might be detached from or made worth less to England ; that half a million of Irishmen in America only await the glorious opportunity, and would spring to arms and crowd every transport to avenge the wrongs of Ireland, on Irish soil, and bet• ter or worse than all, that the South itself would be rejoiced to lend a hand in taking revenge against Great Britain for its selfishness and meanness. The Americans, however, and Mr Raymond as their oracle, make a great mistake if they think the bully, ing policy will be effectual either with Great Bri tain or Canada, or if they entertain the idea that Great Britain is afraid, or that Canada will fall into their hands whenever they are ready to clutch the 4iriza they covet. Perhaps they will learn from the future history of the particular case which has so stirred their bile that they have excited themselves unnecessarily, and that the course of British and Canadian justice will flow in its usual channel, nn• impeded by their bad manners and unhastened by their violence. Bat though General Dix was pre mature, his " order" waft - not without a certain de. gree of dignity. Not so some proceedings and utter ances in the Senate and House of Representatives with reference to the present and future relations of the United States and Canada, especially those of a Mr Zechariah Chandler. now senator for Michigan, and formerly a dry goods merchant in Detroit. In other countries a person in the pcsition of a senator, a member cf the Upper House, generally, if not in variably, endeavours to present to his countrymen and the world an example of forbearance and cool judgment. He remembers that he is a father as well as a pillar of the State, and is conscious that he ought to be removed, by age, education, and exped rience, far beyond the heats and impulses of younger, less responsible, and less honoured politi. cians. But it is not always so in the United States, or Mr Chandler—the same person who declared, more Americano, when the South first threatened secession, " that the Union would not be worth a cues without some bloodletting" would never have been chosen to so high a position. Not con tented with the too copious blood-letting which has reddened the battle-fields of Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky. Missouri, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, Mr. Chandler appears to desire blood.letting in another direction. In hot haste, and almost before the telegraphic wires from Montreal had ceased to click the message which so disturbed him, he introduced a series of resolutions into the Senate, in the highest degree irritating to the Cana• diens and calumniatory both of the Colonial and the Imperial Government, in which he declared in face of known facts that the Canadians were disposed not only as individual; to protect "thieves, robbers, incendiaries, pirates, and murderers" who invaded the Federal States, but to shelter them by " quibbles of the law." This form of putting the case being strongly objected to, he forthwith introduced a no iv resolution, still more offensively worded, in which, forgetting for a while his Canadian grievance, he not only accused the British Government of " pre cipitately" recognising the Southern insurgents as belligerents, but of permitting British subjects and members of Parliament, " with the full knowledge of the authorities," to build and equip piratical ves sels to prey upon American commerce and to despatch blockade-runners to provide the rebels with the means of organising and continuing a rebellion which without such means could not have maintained itself for six months. In order that such proceedings should be stopped for the future and atoned for in the past, he moved that Mr. Seward shculd be instructed to make out a list of all the ships destroyed by the Con federates, dr, as he preferred to call them, British pirates, together with a fair and separate valuation of their cargoes, and to demand payment from the British Government of the value of the same, with interest at the rate of 6 per cent. since the day of capture or destruction, on the penalty of war if such payment were refused. The Senate had more sense than its fire-eating member, and the resolutions TO OTC. Muleagu,el s, 1;n pun. 41.- -1--- al-- Senate was sufficiently:valiint to recommend the immediate purchase or construction of balf-a.dozen gunboats to ply upon Likes (Mario, Erie o llichigen, and Superior, and the House of lt , 2presentatives sympathised so fully in the purpose as to confirm the Senate's decision without the shadow of a debate, and to vote a million of dollars for that purpose, Having previously given the requisite notice of its intention to increase its armament on the Likes— a notico which it appears will date from the middle of October—the Federal Government will be able, long before opening of navigation on the St. LAW. I-eine, to have as many war ships on the Lakes as it can buy, construct ; or transport in the interval, and the British Government, unless it have the materials for ship-building, arming, and equipping, on the Canadian shores of the Lakes, will find itself about the 15th of April with only one vessel upon each lake to oppose them. Thus the sharp Yankees have stolen a march upon John Ball, and John Bull, as far as the Lakes are concerned, will have to submit to the disadvantage till the St. Lawrence is free of ice. It is useless to deny or conceal the fact that there is danger ahead i❑ this direction, and that although the over-tinning and impulsive fanatics who for the present control the destinies of the Fee deral Republic may tot mean actual war with Great Britain, but only to threaten for their own purposes without resorting to the ultima ratio of Kings and democracies, there is so much peril in playing with such edged tools as to make it the duty of the British Government to be prepared for all eventu alities. Those who live opposite to powder maga zineo must have ate eye to their fire•engines and water-tanks—and those who would live at peace with the Americans must be strong enough to be feared, even if they be disliked and vilified. It is quite true that the Federal Government has more than enough on its hands in its veer against the South, and that every true American statesman will so admit. But American statesmen are scarce, and worse still, they are not in power. The men in power,like the people they govern, take their wishes for facts and their passions for argil. merits, and no foreign statesman can calculate or predict what they will do in any given set Of cir cumstances. Possibly, however, the anti-British war mania may subside as suddenly as it broke out; but the British Government and people ought not to forget, either now or hereafter, that the Ameri cans hate them ; that they would like to possess British America, as an off-set for the probable loss of the South ; that the ignorance of the people with regard to the strength of Great Britain especially, and of Europe generally, is only equalled by their arrogance and presumption ; and that consequently the only safe methodof keeping on good terms with them is neither to offer insult nor to brook it, and to show under all circumstances that, though they wish to avoid quarrel, they will, if quarrel be forced upon them, so comport themselves that the aggres sor shall receive a lesson which to all future time shall teach ordinary caution, if it do not teach common honesty. The Journal de Nice states that the Mayor of that town and three members of the Bureau do Bienfaisance went last week to the Villa Vigicr and presented to its mis tress a gold medal as a testimonial of the gratitude of the poor and of the respect of the municipal administration. On the obverse of the medal, in relief, are the words—" To Sophia Cruvelli, Baroness Vigier, the town of Nice and the Bureau de Bienfit'sance, 1864;" on the reverse, also in re lief, are the arms of Nice. The journal abovementioned highly approves of the homage thus rendered to the bene factress of the poor, and expresses the hope that her great talents will again this year be exercised in their benefit. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— Dangerous Diseases.—llow many life-long maladies spring from neglecting trifling symptoms. The pimple, readily curable in the nursery, becomes through carelessness the irremediable torment of after life. With a knowledge of the curative powers of Holloway's ointment and pills, those who fail to use them for extirpating the first seeds of here ditary ailments will have to bear the punishment resulting from their folly. Holloway's remedies will remove erup tions of the akin, scorbutic diseases and scrofula, and heal every description of ulcer, sore, wound, or abrasion. By the employment of Holloway's excellent. speedy, and safe me dicaments, much pain and immense expense will 'be saved, aad a great benefit conferred on, the present and succeeding gemeration. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29, 1864. Railway and other Companies. WATFORD AND RICKMANSWORTH. The adjourned half-yearly meeting of this com pany was held yesterday at the office, Bedford• street, Strand ; Lord Ebury in the chair. Mr A. FORBES, the secretary, read the report, which stated that the adjournment of the meeting from August last to the present date had enabled the directors to make such preliminary arrange. ments as would, they hoped, release the Watford and Rickmansworth Railway from the financial and other difficulties in which it had been placed since the opening of the line. These arrangements, the directors trusted, would be fully carried out by March next, when they proposed to hold the next half-yearly meeting, and submit a full statement of the company's affairs. They now proposed to ask the sanction of the proprietors to raising additional share capital of £30,000 on 5 per cent. preference shares, chiefly to meet liabilities of the company and costs of construction. Mr BARNES said it was the first meeting of the company he had attended, and expressed the disaps pointmant he felt at the state of the company's affairs. The CHAIRMAN explained the difficulties with which the directors had had to contend in so far carrying out the undertaking, but he trusted that the future would be more satisfactory. The thin* tors had advanced large sums to carry on the works, so that the London and North Western might work and maintain the line for 50 per cent. of the re ceipts. He concluded by moving the adoption of the report, which was seconded by Mr. Carey and carried ; the directors were authorised to issue the new capital in 5 per cent. preference shares to the amount of £30,000 ; and the retiring directors, Mr. Carey and the Hon. Mr. Cape], were re-elected. On the motion of Mr. Barnes, a vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. UXBRIDGE AND RICKMANSWORTH. The adjourned meeting of this company was held yesterday at the office, Bedford street, Strand; Lord Ebnry in the chair. The Secretary read the report, which stated that the time afforded by the adjournment of the meeting from August last had enabled the directors to con clude with the promoters of an extensive system of railways from London to the West of England and South Wales a conditional arrangement of a very satisfactory nature. This agreement would remove ail difficulties which had been felt in commencing the works, and active measures were already being taken to place the contractor in possession of the necessary land forthwith. Before the end of the year the line would be commenced. The report was adopted. RICKMANSWORTH, AMERSHAM, AND CHESHAM: The adjourned half-yearly meeting of this com pany was held yesterday at the cffice, Bedford street, Strand—Lord Ebury in the chair. The Secretary read the report, which stated that since the meeting was held in August last the direc tors had been engaged in settling the terms of a contingent arrangement of a satisfactory character with tha promoters in the ensuing session of Par liament of an extensive scheme of railways, and who, in the event of their obtaining the necessary powers, would adopt, construct, and utilise for their system a portion of the Rickmensworth, Amersham, and Chesham Rail• way, and, pending the completion of such arrange ments powers would also be applied for by the same promoters for an extenbion of the time allowed for the purchase of land and construction of works. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, the report was adopted, and Mr Carey and the Hon. R. Capel, the retiring directors, were re-electcd. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. BOSTON, SLEAFORD, AND MIDLAND. An extraordinary general meeting of this com• piny was held yesterday at the Euston Hotel, Euston-square ; Mr T. Parry in the chair. Mr A. Wragge, the secretary, read the report, which stated that notices had been issued stating tnar tno sealed certificates of shares in this coin. pany were now exchangeable for coupons of 41 per cent. preference stock of the Great Northern Ailway Company, and the proprietors would be entitled to dividends on such Great Northern stock for the half-year ending the 31st of December inst. Under the provisions of the Act of last Session, the directors had of late been much occupied in winding up, as far as practicable, the outstancliog business of the company, and at the end of the present month the company would cease to exist. The sale of the forfeited shares had enabled the directors to dis charge the amount overspent to the 30th June last on capital account—vz., £5,466 ; and also to liqui date:several other outstanding liabilities of the com• pany. The balance remaining in hand amounted to £5,765, but there were further claims still re maining to be settled, including compensation to the executive of the company, which the directors consider should be provided for. Subject to the discharge of those claims the directors recommend that the amount available should be returned by way of bonus to the proprietors who were registered on the books of the company at the date of the conversion of the shares into Great Northern stock. The CLIAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said that the statement of figures was not altogether correct, as there were further liabilities to be met. They had realised £13,242 by the sale of shares, they had a balance of £4B left after paying the dividend of 4s per share up to the 30th of June last, and there were sundry accounts due to the company amounting to £520, making together £13,810. Oat of this the directors paid £5,446 over spent on capital account to 30th of June last, and £2,599 for legal, Parliamentary, and other ex-, penses, leaving a balance of £5,765 provided they realised the whole of the £520 due to the company. It might be less, but would not be more. There were !toms outstanding claims to be met, and on the whole he thought they might calculate on having a clear balance of £5,400. A long conversation ensued, in the course of which the report was adopted, the sum of £5OO was voted to the secretary in acknowledgment of his services, and also £5OO voted towards the expenses incurred by the promoters of the bill for the Boston and Freestone shore line; £lOO was voted to each of the directors, and £2l to the auditors. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman. BRIGHTON HOTEL. The ordinary general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices, Cannon•street ; Mr Smee in the chair. Mr Lindford, the secretary, read the report, which stated that great exertions were made to open the hotel to the public before the Goodwood races in July last, which had been accomplished, although only 19 months had elapsed since the foundation had been laid. The working of the hotel had given the utmost satisfaction to all those who had visited it, and the demand for accommo dation had been so large that the directors had been compelled to build an annex and restaurant on their freehold ground adjoining the hotel, which would shortly be complete. A sea bathing establishment had also been erected by a private person at a coat of £15,600 on ground adjoining the hotel. The directors were prepared to issue 5,000 addi tional shares, authorised at the last annual meets ing, to pay for the additional buildings. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said the advantages offered by the hotel were fully equal to that of any hotel or club in the kingdom. Notwithstanding the size of the building it had been found insufficient to meet the demand upon it. The whole cost of the ground, building, furnishing, and opening had Leen £170,000, and the business done averaged between £1,200 and £1,500 per week, irrespective of the wine business. There was therefore no doubt that the hotel would be highly remunerative. The report was adopted. Messrs Smee, Ander son, and Jackson, the retiring directors, were re. elected, and Messrs Dark, Chatteris, and Kent were re-appointed auditors, and the proceedings con. eluded with thanks to the chairman. STATE OF TRADE, CARDIFF, Dec. 27.—The steam colliery proprietors are able to keep their works, in the majority of instances, on full time, but, as is generally the case about Christmas, it is very difficult to get the men to attend regularly to their work. Many vessels have to wait more than the usual time through this irregularity, and it is stated that the colliers earn hardly any more money than before the rise in wages in consequence of negecting their work. The export de mand continues good, and prices are fairly maintained, although contracts cannot now be secured at the quotations which prevailed a few months ago. House qualities com mand an average sale, and the home and inland demand is still considerable, The coke markets are fairly off for orders, and there is a brisk inquiry for patent fuel, princi pally on export account. In the iron trade there is but little doing, owing to the approach of the quarterly meetings. The contemplated reduction in wages has had no material effect upon prices, and the market upon the whole is rather in favour of buyers. The shipbuilding yards are in active employ, and the foundries are well engaged. DUNDEE, 27th.—Few transactions in flax, tow or cedilla are reported to-day, but holders continue firm in their de mands and sales are made at full prices. Jute is also quiet, and only the better qualities are saleable in quantity at late rates, common sorts being rather easier to buy. Yarns of all kinds were in good request to-day, and considerable sales made, chiefly for forward delivery, at the late currency. For the season of the year more than the usual extent of orders are being given out for linens, and .manufacturers of all classes of goods are largely foresold. Prices are very firm, with an upward tendency for the various fabrics, and the linens are wanted both for the home trade and for export. NOTTINGHAM, 28th.—There has been very little doing in the lace trade this week; besides business being very dull the Christmas holidays have interfered with trade gene rally. Very few buyers have been in the market, and the purchases made are very limited. Many of the large houses are commencing stocktaking, so that no real reaction is ex pected until the new year has comraenced. Both cotton and silk goods are a dull sale. There is little doing in silk mechlins, but both laces and edgings are very fiat. There is no material change in hosiery. The amount of business doing is equal to an average, Yarns are very firm, and high in price. The Suspected Murder at Aldershot. Yesterday morning at half-past 11, an inquest was opened by Mr Spencer Clarke, coroner for North Hants, at the Prince Albert Inn, North-lane, Aldershot, on the body of James Rainsford, who was found dead on Sunday morning, under the suspicious circumstances detailed in our impression of Tuesday. The jury viewed the body, which lay in the deadhouse of the Aldershot Cemetery, and presented a ghastly appearance, being covered with blood and bruises. On their return to the inquest-room the fol. lowing evidence was adduced George Hardy, the first witness called, deposed,—l live near the Royal Duke, on ,\.idershott-moor, and am a sawyer. I did not know the deceased Rainsford. On Saturday night my wife and myself slept at her brother's in .Church-lane, Aldershot, and at 7 o'clock on Sunday morning we left for the purpose of going home. On nearing the cemetery gates we met a man going in the direction from which we came. A few yards from the gates my wife called my attention to something lying on the road. I said I thought it was a man, and on going close I saw it was. I attempted to raise him up and spoke to him, but getting no answer I took hold of his right hand, which I found cold and stiff. I left my wife with the body and ran for assistance, which I got directly. It was not very light at the time, being about a quarter past 7. I could not tell by the light whether the body was that of a white man or a black ono. The face was covered with blood and dirt. His coat was lying near his bead, some Gin or Sin from it. The ground seemed "scuffled" about, as if he hed been struggling for life. There was an appearance from his clothes also that he had struggled very much, his shirt being partially out from the waistband of his trousers. Charlotte Hardy, wife of the last witness, was the next witness, but her evidence was only a corroboration of the foregoing, with the addition that from the appearance of the ground, in witness's opinion, a severe struggle had taken place. Mr Thomas Brannan, general dealer, Aldershot, said be knew the deceased well. He had seen him at 3 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, the 24th inst. Ho was then quite well. He was a pensioner from the E 4 h Regiment of Foot, and worked at his trade as a tailor. He was very fond of drink and occasionally took it to excess. Witness paid deceased 3s on Saturday for his subsistence. Witness was in the habit of advancing him his pension in hi-weekly instalments, the deceased regularly repaying him at the end of the quarter, when he got his pension, Police-constable Jenner, 107:Hants County Constabulary, said he searched the clothes of the deceased on Sunday morning after the body had been removed to the deadhouse. He found nothing whatever on him but a piece of Cavendish tobacco. The coat was wet, and the inside breast pocket was turned inside out. Observed that deceased's face was very much disfigured; a cut over the eye and two or three wounds on the head and the front of his clothes were covered with blood. The hands of the deceased were clinched, and one of them ref eeeerely on the back and kn.,,1-I.a spot where the body was mune was pointed out to him, and there were marks as of a severe struggle, but witness could not say whether the appearances were as of one person or two struggling. Mr C. W. E. Foster said he was a surgeon residing in Aldershott. Oa Sunday morning he was called to see the body of the deceased. He found it in the mortuary of the cemetery, whither it had been removed. The deceased had been dead, to the best of his knowledge, six or eight hours. On examination he found several bruises and cuts, one in particular over the right eye, about an inch in length. The skin was also grazed off his knees. The wounds were all of a superficial nature, and he did not think any of them were sufficient to cause death. Yesterday he made a post mor tem exansina'ion. The internal organs were all healthy. The stomach contained a large quantity of beer and small portions of cheese. In his opinion death had not resulted from violence, but from long exposure to the severe cold,the congested part of the abdominal organs and the state of the brain bearing him out in that opinion. The ventricles of the brain were filled with serum, a result he should expect to find in a case of death resulting from cold, From the quantity of liquid found in the stomach ho thought that the deceased had been recently intoxicated. The wound over the eye could not have caused death, as on examination it had not affected the brain. The fact of the deceased's hands being clinched tightly did not, ho thought, prove that he had been fighting, though ho could not account for his shirtesleeves being rolled up. Thomas Walter, waiter at the Royal Exchange Music hall, said that he knew the deceased well, and last saw him alive from a quarter to past - 9 on Saturday night. He was then very much intoxicated. A corporal of the 75th Regi• meat and a woman were with him in the music hall; but he did not know whether they left the place together, as he was in and out of the room continually, Deceased was of a very quarrelsome nature wheh in liquor. Sarah Wetmore, sister of the man in custody, said that on Sunday morning, at half-past 1 o'clock, her father, brother, and herself, and a man named Moor and his wife, went out for the purpose of trying to get somedrink, being Christmas time. The publichouses being shut up they did not succeed in getting any, and the party returned to their home. Her father was missing when they got home, so her ibrother went to look for him, and in his turn was lost. Witness and Mrs Moor went out in search of the two men, and in the road found the deceased, who was drunk lying in the road. Ho had his coat in his hand. Witness and her companion tried to persuade him to get up, and, in fact, raised him on to his legs, but he persisted in lying down. He said he wanted to go to Newtown (a suburb of Aldershott.) She and Moor took hold of his anus and tried to get him along, but could not, as he was helpless. The next morning her father called her upstairs and said that Samuel (her brother) had helped a man that was drunk overnight, and had got some spots of blood on him. As he was only stopping with wager a day or two and had no other clothes, Mrs Moor washed the trousers and one spot off the shirt, She could not say what time her brother came in that night. Samuel Wetmore, having been cautioned by the Coroner, was then sworn and said he was a bricklayer's labourer, living at Plaistow, in Essex. Ho only arrived in Aldershott by the South-Eastern Railway at 10 o'clock on Saturday night, After going into two or three publichouses with his father and Moor, they got parted, and witness went out to try and find them. It was about 2 o clock, he thought, when he went up the road towards the cemetery to find his father and Moor. Instead of finding them, he discovered the deceased. He attempted to raise him, but found he was too intoxicated to stand, so he left him on the road, and went home and got into bed. He heard nothing about the body being found till the police sergeant took him at midday, Sunday, although he had bt.en in two publichouses during the morning, The coroner then briefly slimmed up, pointing out that from the medical testimony i; was highly improbable that Wetmore had anything to eo with the death of deceased. Ho thought the jury would ccncur in his opinion, that death had resulted from natural causes alone. The jury returned an unanimous verdict of "Death from exposure to cold while in a state of intoxicatica." BREAKFAST BEVERlGE.—lfornooopathic practitioners, and the medical profession generally, recommend cocoa as being the most healthful of al beverages. When the doc trine of homceopathY was first introduced into this country, there were to be obt fined no reparations of cocoa either at tractive to the taste or acceptable to the stomach ; the nut was either supplied in the crude state, or so unskilfully manufactured as to obtain little notice. J. Epps, of London, Homoeopathic Chemist, was iniuced in the year 1819 to turn his attention to this subject, Ind at length succeeded, with the assistance of elaborate machinery, in being the first to produce an article pure in its composition, and so refined by the perfect trituration it rmives in the process it passes through, as to be most acceptable to the delicate stomach. For general use Eppa's Cocoa :s distinguished as an invigo rating, grateful breakfast beverage, possessing a most deli cious aroma. Dr. Hassall, In his work, "Food and its Adulterations," says —" Cocoa:ontains a great variety of im portant nutritive principles—every in,gredient necessary to the growth and sustenance of the body." &gain: "As a nutritive, cocoa stands very mach higher than either coffee or tea." Directions—Two teasponfuls of the powder in a breakfast cup, filled up with holing water or milk. Secured in tin-lined lib., 'Ob., and 11b. labelled packets, and sold by all grocers, confectioners, and thenilsts,—[Acrr.] SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Charge of Sending a Challenge to Fight a Duel, William Brownrigg Lumley, a retired major of the In dian Army, who was before the Lord Mayor on Monday, upon the charge of having sent a letter to Mr Laurence Desborough, jun., of the firm of Desborough, Young, and Desborough, containing a challenge to fight a duel, and likewise with sending to the complainant a threatening, libellous. and defamatory letter, appeared yesterday again before the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-house, in answer to his recognisances. The details of the case were given upon the last occasion, and the letters were given in full. Yesterday Mr Wontner again appeared for the corn. plainant, and Mr Peru, from the office of Mr Buchanan, stated, on behalf of Major Lumley, that Mr Buchanan was absent fiom town, and he had only been instructed th a t morning, and had not had time to instruct counsel, and ho therefore asked fur a further adjournment of the case. The Lord Mayor, however, said the case was adjourned to meet the request of Major Lumley, and inasmuch as Mr Desborough was about to leave town, the case could not be again adjourned, but must be proceeded with. The case, as far as he had heard it, seemed to him to be complete—and the only question that remained was as to the course Major Lumley intended to pursue--whether ho intended to call any witnesses or not. His lordship, however, said he did not see how any evidence could do away with the offence of having sent the two letters, which the major had acknow ledged he had done, Major Lumley begged his lordship's pardon, but ho ac knowledged nor:admitted nothing; and he thought perhaps he should be able to convince his lordship that there was evidence to refute the charge. Mr Oke, the chief clerk, said there was no admission re quired. The letters were proved to be in Major Lumley's hand writing. The Lord Mayor said ho could either send the case for trial, or could dispose of it himself by binding the major over in heavy sureties to keep the peace, which latter would be a very mild course. Military gentlemen, he remarked, seemed to have such a very high sense of honour, which others did not feel, who were perhaps equally honourable. He saw no alternative than to adopt ono of the two courses he had mentioned. Major Lumley remarked that he had first asked for an adjournment until Friday, but at his lordship's request, out of courtesy to Mr Desborough, who wanted to go to Paris, he consented to an adjournment to an earlier day, and he hoped the same indulgence would be extended to him. lie wished to have the whole matter thoroughly investigated, that the public might be made aware of the whole of the facts, and it was to that end he had purposely avoided ad mitting anything whatever. The Lord Mayor could not consent, however, to a further adjournment, but he said the case must be disposed of, and he again said he did not see how auy evidence which the major could bring forward would do away with the offmce he had committed against the law by sending those two letters to the complainant. Major Lumley said it would have the very interesting effect to him, as a gentleman, of removing the impression made by the insinuation or Mr Wontner, who under the cover of his profession had thought fit to distinguish him by names that were not very complimentary. Mr Wontner denied that he had called the defendant by any name other than his own. Major Lumley said he had called him a blackguard. Mr Wontner said ho gave a. most unqualified denial to that assertion. He had never used such a term towards the major. To use such a word would be a most inappro priate criticism. What ho said was, that any person who in the present day, and under the present feelings of society, sent a challenge to another to fight a duel, rendered himself liable to have the state of his mind investigated, or to be sot down as a mere braggart. Major Lumley said that was a very clever transposition, and gave Mr Wontner great credit. The Lord Mayor asked the major what he intended to do. Major Lumley requested to be allowed to make a states mew, which was acceded to, and he proceeded to read from a paper a statement which he said he had extemporised for the purpose of meeting the exigency, in the event of his not being able to procure the services of one of the eminent gentlemen whose names he had before mentioned, and which he said were the true facts which led to the case before his lordship. Mr Desborough, he said, had undertaken the ma nagement of a portion of his patrimony, and some misun derstanding had arisen between them with regard to certain dividends which he knew Mr Desborough had received,and which led to a correspondence which increased until it almost reached the regularity of the postal communication, and he thought it advisable to wait upon Mr Desborough I o endeavour to overcome their feelings of distrust, feeling that an explanation was needed, as he had begun to suspect that Mr Desborough was detaining his dividends as an cffset to his bill of costs. On his arrival at No. 6, Siseslano, he was told Mr Desborough, jun., was out, and he asked to see Mr Desborough, sen., who sent out an answer from an inner room that Mr Laurence Desborough knew the particulars of the case, and ho would see him. He said he must see Mr Desborough, as the dividends which he claimed were outstanding, and he must receive an explicit answer, as he had made np his mind to go to law in the event of Mr liesborough s acting against his wish. The head clerk said he was going to meet Mr Desborough, who was at a ward mote, anti would communicate his wishes to him. In half an hour he was informed Mr Desborough had arrived, and was ushered into his presence, and fsund him in company with another gentleman, who he had since ascertained was his father. He was received rather ungraciously, Mr Desborough did not rise from his chair, but simply, with a sardonic sneer, asked him what he wanted. He replied in the same tone that he wanted his dividends which were overdue. In answer to which Mr Desborough replied that none wore overdue ; he had not received any, and he (Major Lumley) could not receive any. He was astonished at this, and said he had it in Mr Desborough's own writing that he had, and should forthwith place the matter in the hands of his solicitor, to which Mr Desborough replied he could please himself. The major remarked that the case would not have been before the Court but for the usual mistake which was invariably made by " peace. makers." He was told by Mr Desborough, jun., to leave the room, when Mr Desborough, sen„ stepped forward as a peace-maker, and of course, as was the case with all who adopted that role, added fuel to the flame. (Laughter.) He asked him to take a chair and see it they could not talk the matter over. He replied no, he would not ; for he was somewhat angered, and said he preferred open war to a hollow truce, and as to the bill of costs, no bill of costs was due until the debtor had exercised his privileged of having it taxed. He made this remark, having heard it in conversation with solicitors, and he could produce those who had said so. He said ho should have their bill taxed, when Mr Desborough, jun., came across the room exclaiming "Tax our bill of costs, indeed I The man is mad." He replied that he had been told by his solicitor that it could be done, and mentioned the name of a solicitor, and said he was determined to have it done. Mr Des borough, jun., said it was false, and ordered him three times to quit the room, and as he turned on his heel to do so he took him by the shoulder and gave him a push ; and he thought the Court would agree with him when he observed that that was a very trying position for a retired major. He retreated rather rapidly down the stairs, bringing off, however, his hat and umbrella undamaged by the bellige rents. (Laughter.) On his way home he called at the solici tor's alluded to—but whose name he would not mention, as it had not been mentioned by the complainant, on whom he had intended to call on his way to court, but was pre vented by being pressed for time, and told him he had made an assertion that he had advised him that bills of costs wore not due until the debtors had had the option of taxing them, and requested him to take the pecuniary part of the case into his own hands; but when he mentioned the name of the gentlemen he wished him to proceed against, he said, his engagements with those gentlemen were such that he would not undertake the case. He should, he said, be able to prove by witnesses that the dividends he claimed were really overdue, that he had received great provocation, and that Mr Desborough or his able counsel had no ground whatever for insinuations by which he endeavoured to jus tify himself for giving him virtually the lie. He added that in consequence of the activity of the enemy—(laughter)— who were better acquainted with the legal forms than he was, and had pushed forward the case to be heard on Mon day, when they knew ho could not easily obtain the aid of any professional gentleman in consequence of its being a general holiday, he had been obliged to meet the case un assisted. He therefore asked for an adjournment until Tuesday, but at the request of his lordship, to oblige Mr Desborough, he had named Wednesday, and he therefore having been again unsuccessful in procuring the advice of his solicitor, had preferred to conduct the case himself ; and having said this much, he again asked hie lordship to con sent to a further adjournment. The Lord Mayor could not comply with the request, and said it had better be adjourned to the sessions. Mr Oke then proceeded to read over the depositions of Mr Desborough which were taken en the last occasion, which having been done, the Lord Mayor asked the major if he would like to cross-examine the witness. Mrjor Lumley said he certainly would. The Lord Mayor said he had made a very able statement, and if he cross-examined with a 4 much ability ho would do very well. The defendant ssid ho had no doubt he was quite equal to the task, and he then proceeded to put several questions to the witness, interspersed with remarks which caused some amusement in court, and elicited outbursts of laughter. The queQtion related to the receipt of the dividends which had been alluded to, and which he asserted had been de- . tained as an offset against the bill of coats, and Mr Desbo rough explained that 1 3 had received £6 on the 29th Nov. and £2O on the 10th Dec. ; but as he received cheques for those sums, which had to be sent to Truro to be cashed, he did not consider that he was in possession of the money until he had been credited with it at his banker's. In answer to Mr Wontner, Mr Desborough produced his banker's pass-book, from which it appeared that the £2O was not paid into his ac count until Dee. 23. The Lord Mayor said ha must send the case to a jury; and after giving the defendant the usual caution, asked him if he had anything further to say. Major Lumley said—Under those circumstances, certainly not. He was then formally committed for trial, bail being ac cepted to the amount of £5OO, viz•, h:mself in £250, and one surety in £250. TIMES.—It is the less difficult to understand the repugnance of the poor to workhouses when we read each a story as that of Timothy Daly and the Infir• mary of the Holborn Union. The main facts of this case have now been ascertained by a coroner's in quest, and although they do not altogether justify the impression produced by the first account of it, they are quite sufficient to call for a more searching official inquiry. It appears that nearly two months ago this poor railway labourer, aged 28, and of strong bodily frame, was taken ill with rheumatic fever, and removed on Oct. 30, into the Holborn Infirmary. A fortnight ago he was taken out, at his own earnest request, and conveyed to a lodging in Union-court, whence he was transferred last Thurs• day to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. There he died of exhaustion on Friday morning. Dr. Andrews, the assistant physician of St. Bartholomew's, and Mr Lowne, the medical officer of the Farringdon street Dispensary,who attended him in Union-court, agree in attributing his death to bedsores, of which he had three on the lower part of his body, two of them " denuding the hip bones of flesh for three inches." The question was whether these bed sores could have been avoided or cured with proper care and attention, or were the result of neglect. Upon this poin teas might have been expected, the evidence was not only conflicting but directly contradictory. The poor man himself undoubtedly believed that he had been cruelly treated. He protested that he had been made to lie on a bed too short and too narrow for him, on linen saturated with perspiration and that his poultices had not been changed for days together. -He complained of this to his wife when she visited him in the infirmary; to Mrs Fitz• gerald, who afterwards took him into her house in Union-court; to Thos. Spillem, who saw him every Sunday in the infirmary; to Mr Shuter, and to the doctors. He assured Mr Shuter that the sores had been forming about six weeks, and that during that time the doctor had not looked at them above three times, the last time being nine days before his re. moval. His belief was that if he had stayed in the Infirmary a night longer he must havesdied, and he did actually die from the cause which excited his apprehensions. As these statements, however, might possibly represent no more than the fancies of a sick man, it becomes necessary to see how far they are borne out by independent testimony. Now, it is fair to mention that Mrs Daly, the widow, does not seem to have observed anything amiss when she visited her husband, and thanked the master of the workhouse for his kindness. Indeed, the deceased himself, in telling her that the doctor used to pass him by, spoke gratefully of the master's conduct. To this we must add the deposition of Mr Norton, the surgeon compromised, and of the Infirmary nurses. The former declared that Daly was ema ciated and dirty when he came into the house ; that the sores did not form till four weeks after; that they were poulticed three times a day; that although very low, the patient never complained of his bed or expressed any wish to leave the house; that it was highly dangerous to remove him, and that he died from the effects of the fever. He also stated that in the six weeks of his illness he got " 10 pints of wine and 40 of porter, 2 pints of milk every day, arrow root whenever he could eat it, and mutton for dins ner." The nurses testified that they had seen the doctor examine the sores at least three times a week, and that the deceased was not cleanly in his habits. The master, Mr Francis, added that the bedclothes were changed " whenever required." On the other hand, Dr Andrews distinctly asserts that " with proper care and attention the deceased ought not to have got into such a condition, even though suffering from rheumatic fever. A water-bed and spring mattress ought to have been em ployed." Mr Lowne, the surgeon, who first called public notice to the case, protested that the bed• sores never ought to have broken out; that iu rheu matic fever a man might be kept in bed for an indefinite time without them ; and that he himself never had a case of the kind, though he attended some 2,000 persons annually. Both these medical men seem to have considered the sores, as well as the contraction of the knees, from which Daly also suffered, as partly the consequence of the cramped position in which he lay, owing to the small size of the bed, With all these materials before them the jury, probably, struck the balance as well as they could in their verdict—" That the deceased died from exhaustion from bed-sores and from rheumatic fever; and that while he was in the Infirmary of the Holborn Union he did not receive sufficient care and attention from the medical officer." Thus ree duced to its true proportions, the case no longer wears the horrible aspect which it at first presented, but it still suggests a great many painful reflections, The appearance of bed-sores is certainly not con clusive proof of neglect, for, in spite of Mr. Lowno's opinion, we knew that this distressing symptom often medical skill where the patient is sur rounded with all that money can procure. But it in ;mpoaoiblo to believe, water roadang Mr. Lowea's evidence, that much was done either to prevent or to relieve them. Nor is it credible that Daly's idea, that the doctor seldom came near him and would not look at his sores, though begged to do so, should have been altogether unfounded, especially when it is not directly contradicted by the party implicated. Moreover, Mr. Norton admits that the card of dietary attschei to the bed, though pur porting to be signed by himself, was really signed by the master, and copied by the same hand into the medical book, to which he afterwards appended his initials. .Where such a practice prevails there is too much reason to fear that economy of time and trouble is studied more than the alleviation of suffering, and this is almost the worst thing that can be said of a hospital, though it be only a hose pital for paupers. It is the proud boast of these noble institutions that the utmost resources of science aro placed at the disposal of the least and lowest, and that a beggar once stretched on a bed of sickness may command luxuries and comforts for which kings in days of old might have longed in vain. There is, perhaps, no virtue which has been so much developed by civilisation as that of humanity, and the growing sensibility of organism which physiologists recognise seems to quicken our sympathy with pain. The sanctity of the sick chamber levels all social distinctions, and the example of Sir Philip Sydney, though few may have the fortitude to imitate it, illustrates a prin ciple which has ceased to be di.einctive of chivalry. No one has pressed the claims of the sick upon the tender care of their attendants more forcibly than Miss Nightingale, and from her writings may be learnt, by those who do not know it by experience, the terrible urgency of those little wants and capricious f ee li ngs w hi c h tr y th e patience of nurses. A navvy prostrated by rheu matic fever is as Susceptible and nervous as the most delicate lady or the feeblest child ; his tem per is as peevish, his spirits as low, his appetite as fastidious, his thirst as craving, his sleepless ness as intolerable. He needs as much watching, as much cheering, as much humouring, as much soothing; he should equally be spared contradic• tion and every source of needless irritation, his pillow should be smoothed with as light a hand, and his confidence won by as ready an appre ciation of his wishes. Unless this is done, or at least attempted, even in the Infirmaries of Work houses, there will be those who prefer to lie down and die in solitude to the cruel tender mercies of Poor Law officials. Such an instance is re. corded in the very same column with the inquest on Daly, and his sad end can hardly be con trasted favourably with that of Mary Hale, who sank from starvation at home, because she would not enter "the house." HERALD.—The evening ministerial journal of Tuesday had another of those attacks on Brazil by which it seeks at once to gratify the individual vindictiveness of their writer against the empire and to divert public attention from the question in which the Cabinet is concerned. Its last attack is again of an omnium gatherum description, and asserts that "the position of Brazil at Monte Video \ is, above all, untenable in the face of England; and that "the Brazilian Government are postponing the arrangement of the political dispute with Eng land in order to postpone the eettlement of the long pending British claims." In these assertions the writer does injustice, in very different ways, both to the British and the Brazilian Governments. The former is unjust to the British Government, be cause, so far from pretending to assume the role of the pacificator of the Plate, or to say which of its Powers shall or shall not make war on the other when they have cause of war, it has just recognised an act of war of Brazil against the Republic of Uruguay by inserting in the London Gazette the formal notification of the blockade of two of the Uruguayan ports by the Brazilian squadron—and by this act it becomes further bound to recognise any effective blockade of Monte Video itself by the Brazilian naval force in the Plato if it should be re sorted to. In order to avoid the blo.kade of a port in which European commerce is largely interested the Brazilian admiral had, it is known, sought the aid of Elropean diplomacy to prevent th e intro duction into Monte Video of munitions of war in neutral vessels of their respective nations. The request was, it is obvious, made in order that the impending hostilities should be carried on with the least possible inconvenience to or interruption of in nocent commerce, and was consequently one with which the mercantile interest concerned naturally sympathised. The request was, however, one which, by the law of natiens,the foreign diplomacy at Monte Video had no power to grant, and was, therefore, declined in terms more or less characterised by the habits of courtesy of their respective countries. But the refusal may precipitate the blockade of Monte Video which the request was meant to avert, and if so it will at all events lessen the moral responsible lity of any blockade that is established. The guar rel of Brazil with Monte Video, though unfortunate and untimely, is not therefore unjust. It has, on the contrary, been most unwillingly forced on the empire. It Government has again and again sought redress for the ravages of its frontiers on the side of Uruguay, for the destruction of the property and the lives of its citizens on the frontiers, and for des predations that had become inconsistent with the protection it owed its own people. It is only when that redress has been denied, and when its oven people placed the alternative of Government or self. protection before their Sovereign, that the Emperor of Brazil has resorted to these naval and military operations. Before doing so the Brazilian Governs ment, in unison with the Ministers of France, Buenos Ayres, and other Powers interested, sought to bring shout by nrgociations with its Government the pacification of the republic of Uruguay; but the Government of Uruguay rejected the suggestions by all those representatives for pacifiaation. Thereupon those Ministers left the republic to find a solution for itself of its quarrel with Brazil, and its remedy has been the adoption of a plan which if successful may enlarge the war and disturb all the indepene dent states of the Plate. For Uruguay has sought military assistance against Brazil from PeraguaYt the past policy of which (under Francis and the first President Lopez) was rigid abstinence from the ,disputes of all the other riverine states. The present President of Paraguay, Lopezfi/s, is or affscts to be a soldier, and he appears to be disposed to indulge in military intervention in a dispute with which his republic is no more concerned than it is with the punishment of the Bhootan tribes by the British Go• vernment in India. If any Platina power be really concerned it is or course Buenos Ayres; but the Government of the Argentine States, under the wise direction of Gen, Mitre, sets Paraguay the example of letting this quarrel alone, assured that the less strangers to it interfere in the matter the sooner it will be arranged. But even now, when war does seem to outsiders to he very imminent, the Brazilian Government has sent one of its most dies tinguished statesmen, Senhor Paranhos, on especial mission to the Plate, in the hope that at the eleventh hour hostilities may be averted, the blockade of Monte Video avoided, and its subjects on the from , ' tiers be indemnified and protected without any ins terruption to European commerce in the Plate. And we are happy to announce that the Government of Monte Video has also sent a special mission to Rio de Janeiro, so that the avoidance of war is more than probable. Such is the simple state of the ques tion, and in it our readers will, we think, be at a loss to know why the Ministerial organ should find fault with Brazil. The quarrel is in every respect an unfortunate occurrence; but it is one in which Brazil has no alternative but to defend its own people, and it is endeavouring by every means is its power to protect them vs ithout hostilities. It is very true that a Monte Videan loan for £600,000 net, not £1,000,000 as the Globe states, has just been raised in London. But if the writer will make due inquiries in the City he will find that not one dollar of this loan will go into the Treasury of Monte Video, or be applied in any way to the pur poses of this war. The loan is a simple operation converting an already existing internal into an ex ternal debt : it has been raised far more on the credit of the eminent banking-house which intro• duced it than on the financial reputation of the Rea public of Uruguay, and is devoid of all bearing on or reference to the queeticn into which our contemporary has imported it. As to the other assertion, that the Brazilian Go vernment has postponed the arrangement of its political dispute with England in order to postpone payment of the long pending British claims, there is not the shadow of truth in it- The interruption of the claims Commission, and non-settlement of the Brazilian as well as British claims, were, as Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald showed the House of Commons, the acts of the British, not of the Brazilian Government, Had it not been for the conduct of the British Foreign Office both these claims would have been settled under the convens tion, and paid two years ago. Their indefinite postponement lies entirely and exclusively at the door of the present Cabinet. And to reproach the Brazilian Government for the delay is to add insult to the iojsry done to the claimants. To connect the delay with the failure of the Portuguese media ation is to assume an acquaintance with the causes of that failure, on which no authentic informatisn has yet transpired, but of which explanations will be, no doubt, required as soon as Parliament meets. Then it will be seen whether the English or the Brazilian Government is responsible for the failure —then it will be ascertained to which Power the mediating Government thinks right and justice in the controversy belongs; and until then we recom mend our contemporary to be more careful in its assertions as to Brazil, as its recklessness may do the Government it supports much more berm than good. COUNTRY MAREET3. ~_____._., f,,_..,_..~ HULL—TuEsDIy. At our market to-day there was only a small supply of English wheat, which farmers held for an advance of is per qr. This price was freely paid towards the cleat) of the market, and some millers were unable to obtain full sup plies. Barley for grinding met an active sale, but, malting sorts ruled dull. Beans and peas in retail demand at late quotations. Old oats in request, but scarce; new mare plentiful, and easier to buy. LYNN-.TUESDAY. The weather continues very cold, with a sharp frost At our market to-day thcra was a moderate supply of English wheat, which sold readily at about previous rates. Barity, beano, and oafs lawvod off at the quotations of last week. White wheat 41s to 42s I Barley ..... 33s to 34.0 Itt•d . Beans .3ls to 36s I Oats .2os to 22 0 Old ... 36s to 33s I Peas —s to ---E1 NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE—TvEsDAY. The market was moderately supplied with wheat from the growers and the coast, but a good arrival from abroad. The trade to-day ruled firm, and Saturday's prices were fully realised. In barley business was dull, at previous rates. Malt dull, at a ell i ght _decline. Oats unchanged in price. Flour the turn dearer. Averages Wheats, 39s 2d—barley, - 28s sd--beans , 36s Od—oats, 21s Id—peas, —s MELTON MOWBRAY--TUESDAY. The following were the currencies :—New white wheat , 42s Od to 458 Od ; new red, 38s Od to 41s per 36 stone; beans, 37s to 43s for old ; new sorts, 35s to 37s per 38 st. ; barley, 32s to 34s for malting, and 28s to 30s per qr. for grinding; now oats, 2ls to 24s Od per 24 stone; old, 25 3 to 288. SHEFFIELD--TUESDAY, A fair attendance of farmers and dealers to-day. The trade was quiet, at about former rates. Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels...lss Od to 16s Od White 7) f ...178 Od to 18s Od New red ..15s Od to 16s Od New white „ If , ..16s Od to 175 63 Beans ,) ~.15s Od to 16s 0i Peas, per qr Grinding barley, per qr Malting ditto, ~ 32s Od to 33s O d Oats __ I, _ 2ls Od to 2650 a Flcitii., is 5d to is 9d per 141 b, COAL 1 1 / 4 1) Moos of Coed per Ton at A.RKET. t the close of the market. Walls End. d. West Hartley 20 6 Eden Main 23 .3 , ( • ..22 6 Tunstall Haswell 4 •••2 46 Hetton 24 _V 6 south lietton *** 9 - Kelloe t, 22; sold, 22, Walls End. East Hartlepool 21 6 South 7tartlepool 23 Ships at marks Three days ago a large steam boiler was sec passing through Hazebrouck, drawn by seven horses, an excited the admiration of all who saw it. It has just been seized by the Custom-house officers at Saint-Pol, bavl on examination been found to contain 5,000 kilos. of smuggled tobacco. Births. BAXTER —On Christmas-day, at The O a ks, Hampste ad' the wife of It. Dudley Baxter, Esq , of a son. r DY3IOND.—On the 25th inst., at Manchester, the wi fe of t It. Lymond, late Captain in the 3d Li g ht Dragoons, sun HUGIIES.—On the 21th inst., at 32, Albemarle-street , i ll° lion. Mrs. Hughes, cl Kinmel, of a son. Marriages. NIXON—PAGE.—On the 27th inst., at Saint Saviourl George Nixon, Esq., Nuneaton, to Catherine, relie„„i ° ° the late R.. F. Page, Esq., Osborn-terrace, ClaP"'" -- park, ta ZWILCIIENBART—ERSKINE,—On the 27th inst., at S 3l Swithun's. East Retford, Rodolph Z wilchenbart , Es of jun,, of Liverpool, to Mary Margaret Anna, d a ughter h, , the late Hon. and Rev. Th omas E rs ki ne, v icar of toa, Derbyshire, andi gran dd aug h ter o f John Frau 30th Earl of Mar, Deaths. On the 27th inst., at 7, Northwick - ANDERSON.— St. John's-wood, John Anderson, Esq,, aged 55, ,„ BEDINGFTELD.—On the 26th Witt at Thornton 1.0°1,' near Northallerton Yorkshire, Francis Philip Bodi a b''' field, E. q., , formerly Captain R.A., aged 81. Hua.T.---On the 26th inst., at Ocbrook House, Derbh J as. Hurt, Esq., late Major 9th. Lancers, aged 80. Ash , PniLLIPs.--On the 25th inst., Mr. James Phillips, t vine, Battersea-park, and 31, Bush.lane, Cannon-stree city, aged 65. Tunott---On the 21st inst., at Snaresbrook, Samuel Tudor, Esq., of Gidea Hall, Rumford, Essex, aged 66. WIITTE.—On the 22d inst.. at Brighton, Edward W terrace, d Esq., of 12, Great Marlbo rou g h-street, London, ag' 69, London: Primed and Prblisheci by WILLIAII A NPIIN. la of No. 112, strand , Pr in t er, at T an SUN °Mee I‘4°• tl °f Straw], in h e Precinct of the SASavoy n the Cc's December 29, 1861'